La Crosse Tribune Local News

RICE, Minn. — You can tell the anecdotes have been passed from parent to child, told and retold again. They have the ring of family stories that have become folktales.

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Participants in Saturday morning’s Big Muddy Run awoke to a dusting of snow, followed by a drizzly, gray skies and temperatures in the 40s.

MADISON — When Festival Foods opens next August on East Washington Avenue, shoppers will be introduced to a new grocer and a new way in which to build a store.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A freeze could stop the growing season in the upper Midwest as far south as Nebraska and Iowa, leaving farmers in a difficult situation because much of the region’s cor…

Jacob Wetterling seemingly dropped off the face of the earth nearly a quarter-century ago, but efforts to find answers to his unsolved kidnapping continue among his family, classmates and frie…

La Crosse School District property owners shouldn’t see their taxes go up this year, and might actually see a drop, if the district’s 2014-15 proposed budget forecast holds up.

Annie Holliday is accustomed to watching her step as she pursues her passion for dancing, but hundreds of others will follow in her footsteps of a different sort today.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — It all started with a ukulele Brian Archer received as a Christmas gift.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Patting his notes for emphasis, Sen. Al Franken made an impassioned case: The Internet needs to be free for all, he said, not customized so that big corporations can optimize it.

BRICE PRAIRIE — Gov. Scott Walker said his initiative to require drug testing to receive state unemployment benefits would benefit small businesses during a campaign stop Friday on Brice Prairie.

I want to give a big thank you to the members of the La Crosse Police Department. As a local business owner, I appreciate the men and women who patrolled the area around West Avenue and La Cro…

I often visit the Burger King near Bridgeview Plaza, and not only is the food fast and good, but the people there are particularly nice. I’m treated warmly each time I go there.

MADISON — No one in America has more faith in democracy than a long-shot candidate for public office.

It’s not as though snowmobile trails will be opening anytime soon, but there might be a little snow on the ground this morning and a below-normal chill in the air.

The mayor has stepped in to settle an internal disagreement over the La Crosse Regional Airport contracting with a private firm to handle some operations that include fire protection.

The situation was artificial but nevertheless plausible: a southbound train derailed in the night, spilling 150,000 gallons of volatile crude oil into the Mississippi River backwaters off Goos…

The city plans to rehab a former South Side drug house shut down by a court ruling after the owner turned over the property.

Snowflakes may mix with swirling leaves tonight, although accumulations in the La Crosse area would be minor and melt Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

Kaitlyn Erickson, founder of the Save the South Branch Library Club, shakes hands with La Crosse Public Library Director Kelly Krieg-Sigman as she presents a check for $1,664.84 the club raise…